Last weekend was our annual fall yoga retreat, hosted for the 2nd year by the very gracious innkeepers at Inn at the Rustic Gate near Big Rapids, MI. Thirteen yogis and yoginis enjoyed a variety of yoga classes–Yin, Energy Flow, Ashtanga, Partner Yoga & Thai Yoga Massage–and spent their free time walking and mountain-biking in …
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The Air Element
This past week’s classes focused on the Air Element. Air is lightness and movement. On a still, humid day we feel listless and heavy, while on a breezy day we feel refreshed and enlivened. If you are quick and alert and come up with lots of ideas and can be a great inspiration to others but …
Yoga Serves at The Home Grown Festival!
Thanks to our Yoga Serves volunteers Catherine, Christy, Bill, Colette, Rachel, Anne (not pictured), Joanne (not pictured) and Christina (not pictured) for helping out at The Home Grown Festival Saturday evening! We had a busy but fun time checking IDs and selling tickets at the ever-popular Michigan beer & wine tent!
Ether
The theme for our September-October class session here at The Yoga Room is The Five Elements. We began the session this week focusing on the element Ether. Ether is the prime element latent in all things, providing space and balance for all elements to unfold. Ether is essential to our sense of connectedness with …
Loving-kindness Meditation
May I be filled with loving-kindness. May I be well. May I be peaceful and at ease. May I be happy. Then do the same meditation replacing the “I” with someone who loves and cares for you. Next, think of someone you may be having problems or difficulties with, allowing yourself to forgive that …
The Yoga Room’s 6th Annual Summer Party!
We couldn’t have asked for better weather for our 6th annual Summer Party on Silver Lake in South Lyon on Sunday! We dug into a delicious vegetarian potluck and then headed out on the pontoon boat for a swim. Here are some pictures of the fun!
Big Sky Meditation
Visualize a big sky–someplace where no trees get in the way of the far-off horizon. Maybe it is over the desert, or over the ocean. This sky is boundless, unlimited, just like awareness. Allow whatever arises in the field of your awareness to come and go, free of all grasping and clinging; free of all …
Lake Meditation
Imagine the clear smooth surface of a lake. When you look into its surface, all is reflected just as it is. The water reflects only what is there, not adding anything, not subtracting anything. Once the image is gone, there are no traces left. Then imagine your mind as clear and reflective as the water. …
Mountain Meditation
I’ve been asked to post the meditations that we’re doing at the end of class each week on my blog. Here is the Mountain Meditation from last week, which is good for anxiety and stress in particular: Visualize a mountain, how solid and stable it is, in the face of the ever-changing weather and environment. …
Why Winning the Current Reader’s Choice 2012 Award for Best Yoga Studio Means So Much To Me
When I found out that The Yoga Room won the Current Reader’s Choice 2012 Award for Best Yoga Studio I was really excited! But even more than excited, I was grateful. I mean, The Yoga Room was obviously up against the ‘big box,’ satellite yoga studios that have opened up around town in the last …
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